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In July of this year the US Army announced it awarded Canoo with a contract to produce a Light Tactical Vehicle - a multipurpose pickup truck that can do it all. The Canoo was given a price target of $67,500 and went to work on the car. Fast...

Counterpoint just shared its report on the electric car market in Q3 of 2022, showing some interesting shifts. The sales were made of 74% of plug-in battery vehicles with the remaining 26% being the PHEV and EREV. After taking the lead in the EV...

Jeep has opened pre-orders for its first electric SUV. The Jeep Avenger 1st Edition can now be booked in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, and Poland, priced €39,500 or in monthly installments of...

Nissan Nismo's CEO Takao Katagiri revealed plans to release a sports car under its the preformance arm's brand. The unnamed flagship model will debut in Japan before rolling to Europe and the US and will likely feature a hybrid drivetrain, but fully...

While the next incarnation of NSX is still years away, the company needs to keep its Performance Manufacturing Center in Ohio busy developing cars of the future. The boffins at Honda decided that the factory with its highly skilled teams of...

The Peugeot 408 was a good car - it didn’t excel in any department specifically but it was good. It had tons of room, it was comfy as a sofa, it was quiet and it depreciated faster than Twitter’s workforce. You could buy a 2-year model with less...

Ford is in a celebratory mood today, as the 150,000th Mustang Mach-E has just been produced at its plant in Cuautitlán, Mexico. The Mustang Mach-E was introduced back in 2019 and finally became available in late 2020. It's currently available in...

What started 6 years ago as a group of engineering students taking part in a solar electric car competition in Australia, entered a major new phase at a production line in Finland. The production of Lightyear 0 is off to a good start - with new...

Today Renault and Airbus announced a new partnership in research and development focused on energy storage in vehicles and airplanes. Combining Renault's expertise in EVs and Airbus' experience in aviation, both companies will try to develop...

Mercedes-Benz is gearing up to launch the updated version of its electric van eSprinter. The official launch is happening some time in February of the next year, but since this is an update and not a new vehicle, there are only some details the...

It took CharIN (Charging Interface Initiative) a few weeks to respond to Tesla’s offer for its NACS charging solution to be adapted as the global standard. As a reminder, Tesla opened up its charging technology to any company wishing to use it and...

Stellantis is finally bringing its most popular European car into the electric age. Vauxhall and Opel will both introduce electric variants of Astra next summer - Opel Astra Electric and Opel Astra Sports Tourer Electric. The great news is that...

A few days ago a report claimed Tesla's next Gigafactory may be located in South Korea, as CEO Elon Musk talked to President Yoon Suk-yeol about this. At that time, Yoon promised that his government was willing to actively improve any regulations...

BAIC and Huawei have a history of making cars together, they have been working together on vehicles sold under the BAIC brand for a while now. Huawei has always been in charge of driver assistant technology and infotainment and this long standing...

Adams Intelligence put a report together looking closely at the total capacity of electric car batteries deployed globally in the first half of this year. It’s a pretty good indicator of the market growth as it gives us a better look of the...

Initially, Tesla's mobile app required you to go inside the car when a new update was available, but recently the company changed that and allowed users to install the new version of the app anywhere. However, the changelog after the update was...

Lancia - the pride of Italy, creator of Stratos and Delta Integrale. A company that used to be known for performance and design, a company that lost its way at the turn of this century and decided that the best business model was to stick its logo...

The Android Auto phone app has had the same basic design dating back to 2020 but the latest beta release has added a major refresh with Google’s Material You design. Users enrolled in the Android Auto beta program and running Android Auto beta...

Nio and Tencent signed a strategic partnership agreement, which will see Tencent taking responsibility for development of autonomous driving technology. Tencent is Nio’s largest institutional shareholder and this agreement can be seen as Tencent...

Audi is revamping its e-tron Charging Service, which will from January 1, 2023 be known simply as the Audi Charging Service (ACS). It will initially be available in 27 countries with over 800 providers, giving access to around 400,000 charging...